Persistent, heavy rainfall Sunday evening has led to flooding in many spots in southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa, especially Mitchell and Mower counties. Numerous roads have been impacted by high water and rivers are running out of their banks in spots. Radar estimates point to 3 to 7" of rain fell in parts of Mitchell and Mower counties.

More rain is in the forecast for again today for northern Iowa, as a very slow-moving storm system continues to impact the area. The potential is there for another round of severe weather across SE MN & northern IA later this afternoon and evening, mainly along and to the east of I-35. Main threats with any storms that fire up later today will be large damaging hail, strong damaging winds, very heavy rain, and an isolated tornado or two later this afternoon and evening.

(ABC 6 NEWS) -- A gift by the military is going to benefit the entire state of Iowa.  Part of a transfer program, the National Guard will be giving 8 humvees to the State Patrol at no cost. One will be stationed in Mason City.

Following the blizzard that crippled parts of the state this past December, a call was made find a better solution to respond to these harsh winter conditions.  The new vehicles will help solve that problem.

The State Patrol Division will coordinate the readiness of the Humvees and station the vehicles across the state for rapid deployment during blizzards, flooding, tornadoes, and other disaster or critical incident related operations.  During these deployments, more than 80 sworn members across Department stand ready to operate the Humvees to augment the Department’s uniformed response.

A sunny Thursday with a high right around 80° today across northern Iowa, with the rain holding off until well after sunset. This will be just the beginning of a very active weather pattern, as another slow-moving storm system impacts the Upper Midwest through the weekend, even into next Tuesday!

Showers and thunderstorms emerge late Thursday and continue into Friday.  It's enough to keep the temps cooler, in the lower 70s across north central and northeast Iowa on Friday.

The weekend will be on and off rain, with temperatures warming back up into the 80s both days. The setup looks favorable for some strong to severe storms to develop.  Too early for the details though, but as always we will be tracking it, so stay tuned!